Greek Salad

Greek Salad is a simple recipe that has a fantastic flavour and only takes a few minutes to prepare. It’s best when the ingredients are fresh and in season. You can add cooked pasta and extra dressing to make a greek pasta salad, or you can add lettuce and make it a tossed salad. So this is actually 3 recipes for the price of one! And best of all you don’t even need to measure the salad ingredients because the amounts don’t have to be exact.

Red onions are an excellent addition to this salad, unless you’re serving to people who have, ahem, difficulty with raw onion. A trick that helps take away some of the sharpness of raw onions is to slice them, then soak in ice water. Drain and add to the salad right before serving.

I like to read labels and make sure I’m buying authentic ingredients. I found feta that was actually made in Greece! If you read the fine print you will notice many products try to fool you with secret words (Greek “style” cheese) and labels that use colours that make you think it’s from that country (like blue and white). That’s sneaky.

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Hi, I'm Marci

I live in Southwestern Ontario in Norfolk County. Located on the north shore of Lake Erie, this area is known as Ontario's Garden. There's no shortage of produce grown here and the area also boasts a lively fishing and waterfowl hunting scene. And lately there are more and more wineries and craft breweries popping up. In fact, Lake Erie North Shore and Pelee Island share the same latitude as northern California and Bordeaux, France. A perfect location for a home cook, foodie and wine lover like me!